Kao Pan Yu Shi (, Desultory Remarks on Furnishing the Abode of the Retired Scholar; also called Art of Refined Living or Pastimes Most Entertaining) is a 1590 compendium on the art of living by Ming dynasty author Tu Long ().
Desultory Remarks has fifteen treatises:
Calligraphy and books Rubbings Paintings Paper Ink Brushes Inkstones Zithers Incense Tea Potted plants Fish and birds Mountain studio Necessities of life and dress Utensils of the studio
Art historian Craig Clunas suggests that the Desultory Remarks is essentially a compendium on the art of living gathered from various other existing sources, such as Gao Lian's Eight Treatises on the Nurturing of Life, (for which Tu Long wrote a preface). Whether or not this is the case, Tu Long's discourses certainly had greater immediate recognition and influence; they were much more widely cited in later collections, and were a primary source for Wen Zhenheng's Treatise of Superfluous Things.Clunas is following the argument of Weng Tongwen, see Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China, University of Hawaii Press 2004, , pp. 29-30.
References
Tu Long, Kao Pan Yu Shi Gold Wall Press 2012 304pp (明 屠隆 考槃余事 金城出版社)